If you’re not already following her Facebook page, you should check it out. Every day, she plants little seeds of peaceful parenting and compassion through the memes she shares and the content she writes about.

L.R.Knost is also a mom of six and is currently battling a rare neuroendocrine cancer, so now’s the perfect time to purchase one of her books, if you haven’t already. I’m sure every book order helps her and her family as they move through this difficult time in their lives.

If L.R.Knost’s peaceful parenting work has touched your life and you’d like to return the favor for her, you can also donate to her YouCare Compassionate Crowdfunding campaign.

Thank you, L.R.Knost for speaking up for the next generation, and teaching parents the art of gentle parenting.

My Libertarian Lifestyle

I'm a woman on a mission to manifest postive holistic changes each day in my own life—however small these changes may seem—because even the slightest of alterations can give rise to strikingly great outcomes in this thing called life. This is the butterfly effect. I am the butterfly.

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"Those of us who are 'disturbers of the universe' are often those whom the universe has treated unkindly and who have decided to fight back, speaking kindness to combat unkindness, hope to overcome defeat, compassion to quell hate, gentleness to counter rage. We are not disturbers of the peace. We are purveyors of peace because we are disturbers of the status quo."

"I am not into electoral politics as a way to change society so I don't think in terms of competing with Republicans or Democrats. I believe that lasting change comes from transforming the hearts and minds of people - freedom comes one person at a time - and the pulling of a lever every four years doesn't have much to do with that process. I believe in grassroots activism to improve the daily realities of people, not in electing politicians to positions of power. A politician has never improved my life, has never made me freer."

—Wendy McElroy, author of several books and co-founder of The Voluntaryist magazine

"Libertarianism is the simple morality we learned as children: don't strike first, don't steal or cheat, keep your promises. If you inadvertently fail to live up to these standards, make it up to the person you've harmed. If someone harms you, you may defend yourself as needed to stop the aggressor and obtain reparations. This simple morality works group-to-group just as it works one-to-one to bring about a peaceful and prosperous world."